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Costmary   Listen
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Costmary  n.  (Bot.) A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.






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"Costmary" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the herbs whose seeds are used for flavoring belong to the Umbelliferae. Fennel-flower, which belongs to the natural order Ranunculaceae, or crowfoot family, is a candidate for admission to the seed sodality; costmary and southernwood of the Compositae seek membership with the leaf faction; rue of the Rutaceae and tansy of the Compositae, in spite of suspension for their boldness and ill-breeding, occasionally force their way back into the domain of the leaf herbs. Marigold, a composite, ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains



Words linked to "Costmary" :   alecost, Tanacetum balsamita, herb, mint geranium, Chrysanthemum balsamita, herbaceous plant, Tanacetum, balsam herb, genus Tanacetum



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